My main areas of study are in interpersonal and computer-mediated communication. Specifically, I am chiefly interested in intercultural and gender communication, discourse analysis, and message production.
Suppose, for example, I see a vessel on the stocks, walk up and smash the bottle hung at the stem, proclaim 'I name this ship the Mr Stalin' and for good measure kick away the chocks; but the trouble is, I was not the person chosen to name it...--J. L. Austin, How to do Things with Words
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